Showing posts with label Maika Munroe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maika Munroe. Show all posts

Friday, July 5, 2024

IT FOLLOWS / THE BABADOOK: THE CLASS OF 2014

IT FOLLOWS (2014) d. David Robert Mitchell (USA)
THE BABADOOK (2014) d. Jennifer Kent (Australia)




10 years ago, a pair of horror films exploded onto the scene, both from independent writer/directors not known for genre fare, both displaying exceptional visual confidence and storytelling skills, and both layered with multiple levels of metaphor and symbolism spicing their genuinely unnerving and clean mythologies. Critics and audiences celebrated this one-two punch of intellectually stimulating and emotionally gut-wrenching fright flicks, subtly shifting the terror landscape forever.

Monday, October 16, 2023

WATCHER (2022) Round Table Movie Review

WATCHER (2022) d. Chloe Okuno


Join AC and his awesome panel of guests (Adam Rockoff, Ashley Lamers, Mackenzie Parker, Stephany Perez, Cati Glidewell aka @theblondeinfront) as they discuss this astonishing debut feature from Chloe Okuno which combines Hitchcockian suspense with timely "believe the woman" social commentary. Maika Munroe stars as a young married woman who accompanies her husband to Romania, where she soon comes to suspect she's being targeted by a mysterious figure across the alleyway.